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A Spatial Database of Ecosystems of the Lake Baikal Basin

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A database, including a map layer of ecosystems of the Lake Baikal basin, has been compiled at a scale of 1 : 500 000. The area is divided into 71 types of mesocombinations of plant communities and their anthropogenically transformed variants, which reflect natural units, corresponding to the level of urochishche/suburochishche of landscapes. A digital map layer of morphogenetic relief types (31 were specified) was elaborated to reflect the spatial variability of the distinguished geobotanical units. The map layer of the soil cover of the basin was based on interpolation of various published thematic data and supplemented by archived and long-term data of terrain survey of the soil cover performed by the Joint Russian–Mongolian Complex Biological Expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. The prepared database includes spatial data on ecosystems and their anthropogenic disturbance for nine model polygons (at a scale larger than 1 : 200 000) and eight test plots (at a scale of 1 : 5000–1 : 10 000), as well as 1757 geobotanical descriptions made by the authors earlier. The 5.1 GB spatial database is a cartographic web service located at https://mon-exp.nextgis.com/resource/. It is intended for open use on any personal computer, workstation, notebook, tablet, and smartphone with Windows and Android OS, including mobile ones with Internet access.

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  1. Since the database is dynamically updated both elementally (additions to existing map layers) and structurally (adding new map layers), here is a description of the contents of the database as of the end of January 2022.

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This work was performed within the framework of the Scientific Program of the Joint Russian–Mongolian Complex Biological Expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and was supported by the Russian Foundation for basic Research, project no. 17-29-05019 Dangerous Degradation Processes and Their Role in the Formation of Anthropogenically Transformed Landscapes in the Lake Baikal Basin.

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  1. Severtsov Institute of Problems of Ecology and Evolution of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071, Moscow, Russia

    S. N. Bazha, A. V. Andreev, E. A. Bogdanov, E. V. Danzhalova & I. A. Petukhov

  2. Institute of General and Experimental Biology, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 670047, Ulan-Ude, Russia

    Yu. A. Rupyshev

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Bazha, S.N., Andreev, A.V., Bogdanov, E.A. et al. A Spatial Database of Ecosystems of the Lake Baikal Basin. Arid Ecosyst 12, 243–250 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079096122030039

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